Trying to get Dell Repository Manager to work
For some reason, I cannot get my PE1950 to recognize my Dell Repository as a bootable image. My PE2900 worked fine. I have tried to put it on a Flash drive as well as a DVD RW. I tried to use the DVD...
View ArticleDell System Hardware & Software Updates for November 3rd – 7th 2014
Dell System Hardware & Software Updates forNovember 3rd – 7th 2014Popular Hardware Updates:Dell DSETDell Server Update Utility, v.14.07.00 (Optional) 7/23/2014 Dell Support Live Image Version 2.1...
View ArticlePoweredge 2800 Continuous Beep at Power Up
I'm new here, so if this is in the wrong forum, please let me know (or move it to the right place).I recently bought a used PowerEdge 2800 rack mounted server with dual 3.6G Xeons, 12GB of RAM,...
View ArticleR320 + ESXi 5.5 PCI passthrough for telephony card
Hi All.I need a bit of advice, please.My server configuration is a R320 with VMWare ESXi 5.5 (free) hypervisor. The guest OS is CentOS 6.5.I would like to install a telephony card for PSTN analog line...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge T620 redundant power supply blinking orange
After I pressed F10 to run Dell Life Cycle, I entered dell ftp address and selected all updates in my new Dell PowerEdge T620 fileserver. It takes around 40 minutes then the server shutdown.Now the...
View ArticleDELL PowerEdge 750 - Power Button part number
DELL PowerEdge 750We are trying to find the part number of either the physical power button ( plastic bit )or as we suspect it may be part of the chassis then we would need that.It is not part of the...
View ArticleR710 Largest Hot Swappable HD it will support
New to the Group:I have a Dell R710 Server that I recently setup as a VM Host Server with 2 virtual servers running on it. I initially setup the server with 6-300GB, 15000 RPM drives and I'm thinking...
View Articlereduce boot time in dell R620
Hello,for reducing boot time in R620 I have read in another post this solution:"You can turn off the power capping option, which holds the cpu at the lowest frequency during post. You would use...
View Articlepoweredge 1950 sata use
My poweredge 1950 will not recognize a sata hdd . Is there some speacial hdd i need. I am really new to this serverand i cannot get it to recognize a hdd when trying to put os on it. Can someone help...
View Articler710 refuses to update bios
I have an r710 server that was originally resold by EMC as an avamar storage node but being re purposed to an esxi host.I installed server 2012R2 directly on local disk and downloaded the system update...
View ArticleT 300 Windows 2008 Server Driver setup Help Please
Hello I purchased a T 300 Server with hard drives wiped clean. I have downloaded the drivers I thought I needed. But have not had much luck I am trying to set it up to its Orig. Specs but I need the...
View ArticlePowerEdge R520...VLT0304 CPU 2 MEM VTT PG Voltage is outside range
Can someone please point me to the right direction. I just upgraded my PowerEdge R520 Memory from 32G to 96GB using Six 16GB DIMMs (2Ranks with Speed 1600 MT/s). Everything works great all day...
View ArticleR720xd Fans insanely loud, running full blast
My R720xd is running all of the system board fans at full speed continuously.On powerup, the fans bump to high speed for a second, then settle down to reasonable speed, and stay at reasonable speed...
View ArticlePowerEdge 4400 Service Manual?
Hello,I recently have been asked to repair and upgrade a Dell PowerEdge 4400 server (Tag #BMWP701) that runs our business critical ERP system. In order to make sure I am using the correct parts and...
View ArticleProcessor List for 2950 Asset Tag - 4931T2J
Hoping someone can help me out here, we have been given an old 2950, currently it has dual core processors, we are hoping that we can upgrade it to better processors. However I am unable to find an...
View ArticleR720 with BROADCOM 5720 NIC does not boot after centos update_firmware
I get:Plug & Play Configuration ErrorIntegrated Nic 1 Option ROM Checksum Errorrepeats for NIC 2 etcsystem will then not boot unless I disable the nic cardthe cntr-s option has also vanishedwith...
View ArticlePowerEdge2950 II Blade Not booting
I have a PowerEdge 2950 II Server that will not turn on. Power supplies have green lights, Front LED indicator is blue with no message, back information light is blue. Nothing happens when the power...
View ArticlePowerEdge C2100 Internal drive controller
I have several C2100 units and decided to get the OS off the main drives(front bays) and utilizethe internal drives. I purchased the internal SATA drive cable which has two SATA connectors on one end...
View Articlehelp with updates
helloim just wanting to get a little bit of info basically i have 4 servers i run in my home network im looking to update all the firmware but it turns out that there is a lot to update, is there and...
View ArticleFabric mismatch on M620 w/ 10G on B
My M1000 system has two MXL (A1/B1) and 2 M I/O Aggregator (A2/B2). Nothing is in C1/C2.My CMC reports A1/A2/B1/B2 are '10 GbE KR' which I believe is correct.I have just installed some 10G cards 06ycp8...
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